[Wikitech-l] PHP issues within MeiaWiki Questions

I had sent a few days ago a questions regading a programing issue I have writing a TAG extension, but so far no one on the list was able to help. I am just wondering if this is the proper list to ask about such technichal questions, and if not is there a list that is dedicated for such questions. I appreciate any help in directing me to were one can obtain such help. My question is repeated below: ------------------------------------ I am running mediawiki on MySQL on a Windows server. I am writing a TAG extension which needs to pull data from a MS SQL data source. In the extension's PHP code, I have the line: $sqlconnect=odbc_connect($dsn,$username,$password); When running this PHP code outside of the Wiki (e.g., in the DOS prompt by typing PHP code.php), the connection works and I actually pull out data from the database. But inside the extension code, $sqlconnect ends up being null. Is there a setting that I am missing that allows me to connect to an external database? Is one not allowed to connect to a database in a TAG extension code? (I am new to extensions). I also tried pulling the same data via web services. I tried the line: $client = new SoapClient("http://www.mydomain.com/MyService.asmx?wsdl <https://portal.gorgiaspress.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.mydomain.com/MyService.asmx?wsdl> <http://www.mydomain.com/MyServiceFulfillment.asmx?wsdl <https://portal.gorgiaspress.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.mydomain.com/MyServiceFulfillment.asmx?wsdl> > "); Again, I successfully was able to pull data out of the web services when I ran the code outside of the wiki at the DOS prompt. But once in the Wiki extension code, my Wiki pages go blank! Again, is there a setting that I am missing that will allow me to connect to databases and web services in TAG extensions? Thanks George A. Kiraz George A. Kiraz ------------------------------------------------- George A. Kiraz, M.St. (Oxon), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Cantab) Gorgias Press 180 Centennial Ave., Suite A Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA Tel. (732) 885-8900 Fax (732) 885-8908 ________________________________ From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Charlotte Webb Sent: Tue 12/25/2007 5:06 PM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] NOWIKI & nowiki On 12/24/07, Simetrical &lt;Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Most likely that would include all "magic words" which when used resemble html tags, being formatted <like> </this> (Obviously there would be others too, "#ReDiReCt" comes to mind). -C.W. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l